Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
ROLLO MAYAll our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
More Rollo May Quotes
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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